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J. L. Mackie The Miracle Of Theism Arguments For And Against The Existence Of God

by: J. L. MACKIE

Publication date: 1982
Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Topics: Philosophy
Collection: folkscanomy_philosophy; folkscanomy
Language: English
Item Size: 198.7M

Contents

Introduction

I. Miracles and Testimony

(a) Hume's Argument--Exposition

(b) Hume's Argument--Discussion

2. Descartes and the Idea of God

(a) The Argument of the Third Meditation--Exposition

(b) The Argument of the Third Meditation--Discussion

3. Ontological Arguments

(a) Descartes's Proof and Kant's Criticism

(b) Anselm's Ontological Proof and Gaunilo's Reply

4. Berkeley's God and Immaterial Realism

(a) Berkeley's Theism--Exposition

(b) Berkeley's Theism--Discussion

5. Cosmological Arguments

(a) Contingency and Sufficient Reason

(b) The Regress of Causes

(d) Swinburne's Inductive Cosmological Argument

6. Moral Arguments for the Existence of a God

(a) A Popular Line of Thought

(b) Newman: Conscience as the Creative Principle of

Religion

(d) Sidgwick: The Duality of Practical Reason

(e) God and the Objectivity of Value

7. The Argument from Consciousness

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8. Arguments for Design

(a) Hume's Dialogues--Exposition

(b) Hume's Dialogues--Discussion

9. The Problem of Evil

(a) Survey of the Problem

(b) Attempts to Sidestep the Problem

(d) The Free Will Defence

(e) Digression: the Nature of Free Will

(f) The Free Will Defence--continued

10. Religious Experience and Natural Histories of Religion

(a) The Varieties of Religious Experience

(b) Natural Histories of Religion

11. Belief without Reason

(a) Pascal's Wager

(b) William James and the Will to Believe

12. Religion without Belief?

13. Replacements for God

14. Conclusions and Implications

(a) The Challenge of Nihilism

(b) The Balance of Probabilities

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